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22 Nemo Boko The Cenacle | 59 | October 2006
23 Carson McCullers A Tree A Rock A Cloud I t was raining that morning, and still very dark. When the boy reached the streetcar café he had almost finished his rout and he went in for a cup of coffee. The place was an allnight café owned by a bitter and stingy man called Leo. After the raw, empty street the café seemed friendly and bright: along the counter there were a couple of soldiers, three spinners from the cotton mill, and in a corner a man who sat hunched over with his nose and half his face down in a beer mug. The boy wore a helmet such as aviators wear. When he went into the café he unbuckled the chin strap and raised the right flap up over his pink little ear; often as he drank his coffee someone would speak to him in a friendly way. But this morning Leo did not look into his face and none of the men were talking. He paid and was leaving the café when a voice called out to him: “Son! Hey Son!” He turned back and the man in the corner was crooking his finger and nodding to him. He had brought his face out of the beer mug and he seemed suddenly very happy. The man was long and pale, with a big nose and faded orange hair. “Hey Son!” The boy went toward him. He was an undersized boy of about twelve, with one shoulder drawn higher than the other because of the weight of the paper sack. His face was shallow, freckled, and his eyes were round child eyes. “Yeah Mister?” The man laid one hand on the paper boy’s shoulders, then grasped the boy’s chin and turned his face slowly from one side to the other. The boy shrank back uneasily. “Say! What’s the big idea?” The boy’s voice was shrill; inside the café it was suddenly very quiet. The man said slowly: “I love you.” All along the counter the men laughed. The boy, who had scowled and sidled away, did not know what to do. He looked over the counter at Leo, and Leo watched him with a weary, brittle jeer. The boy tried to laugh also. But the man was serious and sad. “I did not mean to tease you, Son,” he said. “Sit down and have a beer with me. There is something I have to explain.” Cautiously, out of the corner of his eye, the paper boy questioned the men along the counter to see what he should do. But they had gone back to their beer or their breakfast and did not notice him. Leo put a cup of coffee on the counter and a little jug of cream. “He is a minor,” Leo said. The paper boy sidled himself up onto the stool. His ear beneath the upturned flap of the helmet was very small and red. The man was nodding at him soberly. “It is important,” he said. Then he reached in his hip pocket and brought out something which he held up in the palm of his hand for the boy to see. “Look very carefully,” he said. The Cenacle | 59 | October 2006
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Page 9 and 10: Assistant Editor: Kassandra Soulard
Page 11 and 12: 1 Revolution Evolution George Dorn
Page 13 and 14: 3 Thus, for a revolution to be trul
Page 15 and 16: 5 References Joyce, James. Ulysses.
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Page 19 and 20: 9 Wrack What fury tonight in old le
Page 21 and 22: 11 Absolution “Our only guide is
Page 23 and 24: 13 Compel What convincing to live i
Page 25 and 26: 15 Holy (i) Between two shadows, up
Page 27 and 28: 17 Zero It was crush sun by sun, fl
Page 29 and 30: 19 Power What cross between humble
Page 31: 21 Doctrine Romance the hard rhythm
Page 35 and 36: 25 “It was like this,” the man
Page 37 and 38: 27 “A woman,” the old man said.
Page 39 and 40: 29 Ric Amante Her Radiant Upward Va
Page 41 and 42: 31 Dream #9 I watched it fall from
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Page 45 and 46: 35 I don’t advocate use of psyche
Page 47 and 48: 37 Judih Haggai First Then Last I s
Page 49 and 50: 39 Crystallized Crumbs When lost ch
Page 51 and 52: 41 bent like a reed wind swift to s
Page 53 and 54: 43 Inner Autumn The leaves hang hum
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Page 57 and 58: 47 Far more yes than no in recent y
Page 59 and 60: 49 “I’m OK, Reb” “Sure?”
Page 61 and 62: 51 “Yes. There’s no pressure. N
Page 63 and 64: 53 Grey sips & waits— Just to be
Page 65 and 66: 55 She looks at me all blue eyes so
Page 67 and 68: 57 “Hesitate little but hurryeth
Page 69 and 70: 59 “Thou canst prove there is wat
Page 71 and 72: 61 he nods at me & I continue: yes,
Page 73 and 74: 63 Knickerbocker stares bluntly at
Page 75 and 76: 65 She has disappeared within me as
Page 77 and 78: 67 “I’m scared. I’m on a bus
Page 79 and 80: 69 I haven’t found my home yet so
Page 81 and 82: 71 Gretta grins. “Yes! Oh! She ha
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73 I think: can this story still ma
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75 I know. Next year I’ll be with
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77 dust accumulates— Dream of dan
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79 Dr. Timothy Leary Using LSD to I
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81 Emmanuelle Brochier The Cenacle
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83 The key here is the guide’s ab
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